Topic: legal disputes
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Smart Rings: The Future of Wearable Tech?
A US trade ruling has blocked several smart ring brands from importing devices into the American market, following a patent infringement case brought by market leader Oura against competitors. The broad patent at the center of the dispute covers a fundamental hardware design for smart rings, shap...
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Sam Altman Slams Elon Musk in Fiery X Posts
The public dispute between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk has escalated, with Altman posting pointed allegations on X about Musk's company providing few records in their ongoing legal discovery process. The core legal conflict centers on OpenAI's shift to a capped-profit model, which Musk ar...
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Natcast Announces Major Staff Layoffs
Natcast, the non-profit managing the National Semiconductor Technology Center, is laying off most staff and closing after the Commerce Department withheld $7.4 billion in funding, alleging legal issues with its structure. The organization, established to advance semiconductor research and workfor...
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Disney Lawyers Killed KOTOR 2's Restored Content DLC
Disney's legal intervention cancelled the official Restored Content DLC for *Knights of the Old Republic II* on Nintendo Switch, halting Aspyr's years-long effort to officially release a major fan modification. The project was blocked because Disney required Aspyr to definitively identify and obt...
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Ex-Nintendo Staff Reveal Why "Nindies" Name Was Dropped
Nintendo has officially retired the popular marketing term "Nindies" for its indie games, despite its initial popularity and internal support. The term was removed due to legal concerns that blending "Nintendo" with "indies" could weaken the company's trademark protection. This highlights a confl...
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Disney Sues Google Over 'Massive' AI Copyright Infringement
Disney has sued Google for copyright infringement, alleging its AI models like Gemini were trained on and generate content from Disney's intellectual property without permission. The lawsuit coincides with Disney announcing a major partnership with OpenAI to integrate its characters into AI tools...
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Amazon's War on AI Shopping Browsers
Amazon has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, demanding the shutdown of its AI-powered Comet browser's purchasing capabilities for violating Amazon's conditions of use and allegedly harming customer relationships. Perplexity responded by accusing Amazon of stifling innovation to prot...
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Why Perplexity Is Losing the AI Race
Perplexity launched as an ad-free, citation-backed AI search platform to challenge commercialized engines, gaining early user and investor enthusiasm for its transparent model. Its growth was hampered by a reliance on external AI models, high operational costs, and legal battles over content scra...
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Ring CEO: Our Cameras Could 'Zero Out Crime' in 12 Months
Jamie Siminoff, founder and CEO of Ring, predicts that widespread use of AI-enhanced security cameras could nearly eliminate neighborhood crime within one to two years through advanced technology and sufficient coverage. Despite facing legal battles, product malfunctions, and near-collapse, Ring ...
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Elon Musk Settles $128M Twitter Exec Lawsuit
Elon Musk has settled a $128 million lawsuit with four former Twitter executives, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, whom he fired after acquiring the company for $44 billion in 2022. The executives claimed Musk denied them severance as retaliation for holding him to his initial purchase commitment,...
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AI-Generated Film 'Critterz' Backed by OpenAI Eyes Cannes Debut
AI-generated filmmaking is entering the mainstream with the OpenAI-backed project *Critterz*, aiming to produce a feature-length animated film by blending human creativity with machine-generated visuals for greater speed and cost-efficiency. The use of AI in film production raises questions about...
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Dino Patti on Multiplayer, Stop Killing Games, and Legal Battles with Playdead
Dino Patti, co-founder of Playdead, has spent seven years building Coherence, a tool designed to make online multiplayer development accessible to studios of all sizes, recently launching version 2.0 and being acquired by Roundtable Interactive Group. Coherence's technology allows developers to e...
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Amazon's DoorDash Dilemma: What It Means for You
The rise of AI agents is challenging traditional customer relationships by acting as intermediaries, potentially reducing service providers to commodity suppliers and threatening their revenue from ads and loyalty programs. This issue, known as the "DoorDash problem," affects major platforms like...
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Warner Music and Udio Settle AI Copyright Lawsuit, Strike New Deal
Warner Music Group has resolved its copyright dispute with Udio and formed a strategic partnership to launch a licensed AI music platform in 2026, using authorized content to create new income streams for artists while protecting their rights. The upcoming subscription service will enable users t...
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Automattic CEO Admits Tumblr Is His 'Biggest Failure'
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg considers the acquisition of Tumblr his biggest professional disappointment, as it remains unprofitable and operates on a separate infrastructure from WordPress, with a paused migration plan due to the immense scale and cost. Despite Tumblr's financial drain, Mullenw...
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Luminar, a Leading Lidar Company, Files for Bankruptcy
Luminar, a leading lidar manufacturer for autonomous vehicles, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, marking a dramatic fall for the once-promising company. The bankruptcy involves selling its core assets, including a $110 million deal for its semiconductor unit, while aiming to maintain operation...
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Disney Sues Google Over AI Copyright Infringement
Disney has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging its AI models (like Veo and Gemini) have engaged in widespread copyright infringement by generating Disney characters and stories without permission. Disney accuses Google of willfully leveraging its market dominance to profit from t...
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Inside the Strange World of AI Agent Social Networks
Moltbook is a novel social network platform, akin to Reddit, designed exclusively for AI agents to post, comment, and form communities, with over 30,000 active bots interacting via APIs. The platform is operated by an AI, with the founder's own agent managing the site's social media, code, and mo...
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Krafton Plans 26 New Games, Seeks Next Big Franchise
Krafton is developing 26 new games, with 12 launching in the next two years, as part of a strategy to build major new intellectual property franchises for long-term growth. The company is focusing on creating IPs that can expand across genres and formats, using a development process based on earl...
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Top Gaming Industry News Stories of 2025: Year in Review
Sony scaled back its live-service ambitions after the failure of *Concord*, canceling projects and signaling a shift away from the industry's pursuit of live-service dominance. Microsoft successfully expanded its multiplatform strategy, bringing major titles like *Indiana Jones* and *Halo* to PS5...
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Red Dead Redemption 2: Where's the Switch Port?
Red Dead Redemption 2 has become the fourth best-selling video game ever with over 79 million copies sold, yet it remains unavailable on current-generation consoles like the Nintendo Switch despite its ongoing commercial success. Square Enix has laid off 140 employees from its international publi...
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Instagram ordered to stop using 'PG-13' teen accounts
The Motion Picture Association has demanded Meta stop using its "PG-13" trademark to describe content restrictions for teen Instagram accounts, calling the comparison inaccurate and misleading. The MPA argues that Meta's use of the rating threatens public trust in its established system and did n...
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Summer Eternal to Reveal Debut Game Exclusively on Vinyl and Art Book
Summer Eternal, founded by former ZA/UM writers, is revealing its debut project exclusively through a premium analog package—an art book and vinyl record—bypassing digital marketing entirely. The collective is funding its first game, codenamed Red Rooster, through anthology sales, with revenue fi...
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DeepSeek's R1 AI Model Trained for a Fraction of Expected Cost
DeepSeek's R1 AI model was developed for only $249,000, challenging the industry norm of spending hundreds of millions and questioning the necessity of massive financial investment for AI innovation. The company also offers significantly lower operational costs, charging just $0.14 per million to...
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Meta's AI Talent Exodus: A WIRED Investigation
Meta is experiencing a significant loss of top AI talent, which threatens its innovation and strategic development in a competitive field. The disappearance of entry-level roles creates a gap in workforce development, hindering the acquisition of essential skills needed to collaborate with advanc...
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Deloitte's AI Bet: Big Investment Despite Major Refund
Deloitte announced a major AI partnership with Anthropic to deploy Claude chatbot across its global workforce, focusing on compliance solutions for regulated sectors like finance and healthcare. The firm faced scrutiny and had to refund payment for a government report containing fabricated academ...
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Luminar's Lidar Unit Attracts $33 Million Takeover Bid
MicroVision has placed a winning $33 million bid to acquire Luminar's core lidar assets, including intellectual property, inventory, and key personnel, signaling a major industry consolidation. MicroVision's leadership believes this acquisition positions the company to transform the lidar market ...
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Netflix ups Warner Bros. bid with all-cash offer
Netflix has revised its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to an all-cash deal valued at $27.75 per share, aiming to accelerate the sale process and counter Paramount's competing hostile bid. The all-cash structure is intended to provide greater financial certainty and facilitate a quicker sharehol...
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Paramount Sues Warner Bros. Over Failed Deal
Paramount has sued Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to force disclosure of its Netflix partnership details, arguing this is necessary for shareholder transparency in the competitive streaming landscape. Paramount's CEO criticizes WBD for rejecting its merger proposals without proving the Netflix deal...
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YouTube settles with Trump for $24.5 million
YouTube has settled a lawsuit with former President Donald Trump for $24.5 million, following his suspension from the platform in 2021 and resolving his legal actions against major social media companies. The majority of the settlement, $22 million, will go to the Trust for the National Mall for ...
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Will Your Favorite Apps Work on New AI Devices?
The rise of AI-powered devices and their underlying "operating systems" threatens traditional app-based business models by removing direct user engagement, which is crucial for advertising and brand loyalty. A central conflict is emerging over who controls the user experience and data, with major...
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Warner Music Partners with AI Startup Suno in Landmark Deal
Warner Music Group has partnered with AI startup Suno to resolve copyright disputes and establish new standards for artist compensation and control in AI-generated music, including launching licensed AI music models next year. The agreement ensures Warner Music artists retain full control over th...
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Monarch Tractor Warns of Layoffs and Potential Shutdown
Monarch Tractor has warned of potential permanent layoffs for over 100 employees and possible company shutdown, as revealed in an internal memo due to financial instability. The company, which raised $220 million in venture capital, is shifting from manufacturing autonomous tractors to focusing o...
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Lucid Motors Cuts 12% of Workforce in Profitability Push
Lucid Motors is laying off 12% of its workforce to streamline operations and improve financial performance, a move not expected to impact hourly manufacturing and logistics staff. The restructuring occurs as the company focuses on increasing production of its Gravity SUV and prepares to launch a ...
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Uber Acquires Getir's Delivery Business in Turkey
Uber has acquired Getir's food delivery operations for $335 million and taken a $100 million stake in its remaining grocery and retail business, marking a strategic expansion in Turkey. Getir, once valued at $12 billion, is retreating from global markets to focus on Turkey after pandemic-driven g...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Defense: Why Safety Isn't Guaranteed
OpenAI acknowledges that complete security for its AI-powered Atlas browser may be impossible, highlighting a core tension where the tools' useful capabilities also create significant new cyberattack risks. To proactively find vulnerabilities, OpenAI uses an AI-based automated attacker that simul...
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OpenAI's Latest Acquisition Targets MacBook Users
OpenAI has acquired Sky, a native Mac AI interface, to deepen ChatGPT's integration into desktop environments and reduce reliance on browsers. The technology enables seamless, local AI assistance for tasks like managing schedules and coordinating messages directly within the operating system. Thi...
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OpenAI: AI Supercharges Cybercriminal Operations
OpenAI reports that cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups are increasingly using AI to enhance malicious activities like surveillance and disinformation, while the company has disrupted over forty such networks since early 2024. AI is being integrated into criminal workflows to boost efficien...
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Football commentator's AI voice licensed for EA Sports FC
AI is being used to replicate commentator Guy Mowbray's voice for EA Sports FC, streamlining the recording of thousands of player names and making the process more efficient. Electronic Arts emphasizes that AI is a collaborative tool to support human talent in creating immersive audio, not a repl...
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California's AI Crackdown: Can One State Prevent Disaster?
A new California law requires AI companies to publicly disclose their catastrophic risk management plans and report serious safety incidents, with significant penalties for non-compliance. The legislation addresses expert warnings that advanced AI could cause widespread harm through malicious use...
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Can't Find Your ChatGPT Recap? Here's How to Get It
OpenAI has launched a personalized year-end recap for all ChatGPT users, similar to Spotify Wrapped, which highlights key themes from their past conversations with the AI. To access the feature, users must have previously enabled "Reference saved memories" and "Reference chat history" settings, a...
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Disney Partners with OpenAI to Create AI Videos Using Its Characters
Disney and OpenAI have formed a three-year strategic partnership, including a $1 billion Disney investment, to integrate Disney's iconic characters into OpenAI's Sora video generation platform. The deal allows users to create videos featuring over 200 Disney-owned characters and assets, but expli...
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Reddit and Google Deepen AI Partnership in New Talks
Reddit and Google are negotiating to integrate Reddit's content more deeply into Google's AI tools, potentially changing how information is curated and presented. Reddit is pursuing a dynamic pricing model for its data, aiming to be compensated as an essential supplier based on the value of its u...
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'The Pitt' on AI in Medicine: Hits and Misses at 8:00 AM
The article uses a TV medical drama to illustrate the potential of AI in healthcare, such as drastically reducing administrative work to increase patient time, while also highlighting significant risks like critical transcription errors in chaotic environments. It critically examines claims of hi...
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5 Essential Ways to Guard Your AI Browser from Prompt Injections
The integration of AI into web browsers introduces significant security risks, with "prompt injection attacks" being a primary threat that can manipulate AI assistants to produce harmful outputs or steal data. These attacks, which can be direct or indirect (like the HashJack technique), exploit...
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Apple Could Disable App Tracking in Europe
Apple may disable its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature in Europe due to intense lobbying, potentially undermining user privacy by removing their ability to block cross-app tracking. Regulators in countries like Germany and France argue ATT is anticompetitive, alleging Apple applies stricte...
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